{"id":97,"date":"2012-03-07T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=97"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:47:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:47:05","slug":"lorraine-mcguire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/lorraine-mcguire\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorraine McGuire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jason\u2019s Last Supper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have flavoured myself<br \/>\nwith mandrake<br \/>\nand honeysuckle;<br \/>\nsoftened the light;<br \/>\nset the table in silks;<br \/>\ngathered dew at midnight<br \/>\nto wash your feet.<br \/>\nI have used the voice<br \/>\nof Callas to soothe cares:<br \/>\nsee how she hangs<br \/>\nin the air between us?<br \/>\nTrip the charmed dance<br \/>\nwith me, let me<br \/>\ngrip your oil soaked fingers<br \/>\nin our final tango;<br \/>\nstep, slide<br \/>\nin beside me.<\/p>\n<p>Come, one last night.<br \/>\nOne last time, lay<br \/>\nyour head in my shadow, and sleep.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Lorraine McGuire<\/strong> is Glasgow born and bred and writes fiction and poetry. She has been published in both poetry and short story collections as well as having some poems published in online magazines. Her novel will be finished very soon, honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason\u2019s Last Supper I have flavoured myself with mandrake and honeysuckle; softened the light; set the table in silks; gathered dew at midnight to wash your feet. I have used the voice of Callas to soothe cares: see how she hangs in the air between us? Trip the charmed dance with me, let me grip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23885,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/23885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}